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30 Day Monster Challenge: The Spider Girl

This one is a bit late, since I was working on a job application and didn’t get started until around 4 o’clock today.

I decided that the best approach to a spider girl was, again, to shake things up a little. I didn’t want to do a Playboy bunny sticking out of a spider-butt, so I decided to integrate the two a bit more than is normally done. I also happened back across a video of this little dude here, the peacock spider, (the really good part starts around 2:45), and decided that it was simply too adorably silly to pass up.

That led to #6: The Spider Girl

If you haven’t watched the video, you’re missing out. Basically it’s a few minute long mating dance done by extremely silly and tiny spiders who have what amounts to a fold-out peacock tail attached to their butts and dance with two little legs in the air to impress lady spiders. I decided to translate that mating dance into a punk-rock spider with the peacock tail as her hair instead of coming off her tush. Her guitar’s name is “The Widow” (obviously modeled on a black-widow). I imagine her having a name like “Priscilla” and speaking with a thick cockney accent.

The pyro-technics are to help attract mates. Male, female, she’s not picky. She’ll have time to lay eggs later. For now, IT’S PARTY TIME!